In the years leading up to the coronavirus pandemic of 2020, the concept of a universal basic income was regarded as the kind of progressive political idea that would never make it into the mainstream. It's certainly striking, though, how the pandemic seemed to all of a sudden make the unthinkable a familiar part of life. Things like face mask mandates, stimulus checks, lockdowns, a broad shutdown of travel -- and the idea that people would get a regular check from the government, just because.
Since July, for example? The federal government has rolled out a kind of universal basic income "lite," via the child tax credit payments. It's lite, in the sense that the checks are temporary. The sixth and final payments will come in December. Earlier this month, meanwhile, the fourth batch of these payments transferred around $15 billion from the federal government's coffers directly to American households with eligible children. The payments showed up automatically in bank accounts and mailboxes, in a manner that's also exactly how UBI payments work.
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